{"id":304653,"date":"2024-01-05T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=304653"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:57:11","slug":"widow-dead-husband-sperm-surrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/widow-dead-husband-sperm-surrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"62-year-old widow hopes to create baby using dead husband’s sperm and surrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An elderly woman in Australia has won a court battle to retrieve sperm from her dead husband, with the goal of having a child through surrogacy. But she may still face obstacles along the way.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old woman, who has not been identified<\/a>, was allegedly looking into surrogacy with her husband when he died suddenly at the age of 61 in Western Australia. While a judge ruled the sperm could be retrieved, there is currently a ban on posthumous fertilization in the state, making another hurdle the woman will have to clear.<\/p>\n

Prior to her husband’s death, the woman lost two adult children<\/a> as well; in 2013, their 29-year-old daughter drowned on a fishing trip, and their 30-year-old son died in a 2019 car accident.<\/p>\n